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      CommentAuthorfromemory
    • CommentTimeMar 31st 2008
     
    ...but that would be fucking stupid, and I'd lose most of my spatial awareness, hearing-wise.

    Why do people do this?
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      CommentAuthorchewy
    • CommentTimeMar 31st 2008
     
    mate i cant do the job without music,just dont get earphones that go all the way in your ears
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      CommentAuthorwill
    • CommentTimeMar 31st 2008
     
    ah, my guilty pleasure. i know it's not a good idea but listening to music while you're riding is better than... almost anything. you have to adapt a bit; after all should deaf people not ride bikes? anyway got to get back to trying to fit this bloody headset.
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      CommentAuthorfromemory
    • CommentTimeMar 31st 2008
     
    it really would be lush... and would make it all so much easier... but without being able to hear the cars i'd be screwed.
    • CommentAuthorsleepy
    • CommentTimeMar 31st 2008
     
    i've not done it lately, but that's due to my phone being shonky. i actually love it.

    the cars you really need to wary generally make enough noise to hear over the music, choice of cans is also a large factor. i favour this type:



    they don't block out sound and don't move about when you ride, decent bass response too :bigsmile:

    about 5pm yesterday, stamford hill- big dreads, shiny red lemond road bike, sound familiar? :shocked:
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      CommentAuthorfromemory
    • CommentTimeMar 31st 2008 edited
     
    That's me. You local?

    (had just...JUST got the new bike... gave it a good spin through the neighborhood and Clissold park... yum)
    • CommentAuthorsleepy
    • CommentTimeMar 31st 2008
     
    reasonably, spend alot time around seven sisters/hackney central/stamford hill though actually live in hornsey. was on my way to a birthday party at the cricketers, kind of did a double take going onto to rectory road- "swear i recognise that guy... no idea where from though... aha! he from teh internets! oh, he's gone" :smile:
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      CommentAuthorfromemory
    • CommentTimeMar 31st 2008
     
    Hehe. I'm constantly trying to put names to faces, and vica verc. I'm pretty sure I saw Bill riding home the other day but maybe not. Definitely seen the ginger beard full-face helmet guy everywhere. There's a guy, darker skin short black hair on a red ss/fg, I must see him 20 times a day. In this picture: http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2261/2337425741_21fea274cc.jpg I see the dude in the grey top everywhere, and same goes for the guy in the camo cap.
    • CommentAuthorsleepy
    • CommentTimeMar 31st 2008
     
    grey top is overdrive, a lovely feller. camo hat is the pike: avoid.
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      CommentAuthorfromemory
    • CommentTimeMar 31st 2008
     
    Come up and say hi to me next time you moody fuckers :P
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    Always trust your eyes before your ears. I have never had a problem with musac.
    • CommentAuthorifbm
    • CommentTimeApr 1st 2008
     
    I've always listened to music on the road, just had one head phone in the left ear so I could hear the radio with the right, found it counteracted the controller and made the day go faster, just don't have it so loud that you lose concentration.
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    This makes me laugh:

    why is it ok for car drivers to have the music up so loud the car bounces on the downbeat, but cyclists have to ride 'au naturel'?

    As sleeps says, you'd have to be wearing a pair of HUGE cans to totally block out the noise from the traffic.
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    @fromemory
    Alright mate.
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      CommentAuthorchewy
    • CommentTimeApr 1st 2008
     
    im addicted to listening to radio on the road, radio 1 then change to lbc after 10am and if its a bit boring abit of pantera to help with the aggression
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      CommentAuthorBANNED MAN
    • CommentTimeApr 1st 2008
     
    No more dangerous than listening to a stereo while driving.
    • CommentAuthorsleepy
    • CommentTimeApr 1st 2008
     
    the real gripe is that headphones, generally have shit sound. my beyers would actually block all noise out as would any "proper cans", as well as making you look like a dickhead.













    on the other hand- ave someathat!
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    Where do you find that? F*** me, they are MONSTROUS!
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    I have an amazing singing voice, which I use everywhere I go. It's amazing how many people get out of the way when they hear my falsetto. I sing 'In the Ghetto' when cruising through Longsight. My baritone is enough to make the tinted windows rattle. 'Stayin' Alive' is a particualar favourite in heavy traffic.

    Yes, I can do both Falsetto and Baritone. I'm a bit like Prince, only taller, with a full compliment of ribs and a lot less money.
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      CommentAuthorfromemory
    • CommentTimeApr 1st 2008
     
    This thread's swung my opinion a little. I didn't realise it was so commonplace... though I still can't get my head around it, I try to have 100% awareness at all times and I think I'd find music really getting in the way. Maybe I'll try some less-closed 'phones. If so many people can ride safe with it, then fair play.
    • CommentAuthorsleepy
    • CommentTimeApr 1st 2008
     
    johnsatisfaction sounds a bit like ricardo. :wink:

    i always found different types of music would make me ride in different ways- often with less regard for my personal safety :confused: FACT: it is impossible to ride responsibly while listening to beastie boys "fight for your right to party"; techno on the other hand would make my riding quite sedate.
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      CommentAuthorfromemory
    • CommentTimeApr 1st 2008
     
    OK, so would it be too lame to get the courier top 10s?
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      CommentAuthorcaspar
    • CommentTimeApr 1st 2008
     
    I listen to Corrosion of Conformity on the way to church on sundays & Mahler the rest of the week, apart from Wednesdays when I listen to Bananarama.
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      CommentAuthorchewy
    • CommentTimeApr 1st 2008
     
    pantera - strength beyond strength and anything by messhuggah
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    Messenger Top Ten

    1. Alleycat - The Deadly Treadleys
    2. I Fought The Law - Sonny Curtis and The Crickets/The Clash
    3. anything by LSid

    ????
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    I need my ears in traffic, big time, do sing and whistle tho, always badly and with completely wrong lyrics to songs that are either rubbish or cliche:

    I get around- Beach Boys
    Welcome to the Jungle-Guns 'n' Roses
    How much is that doggy in the window
    • CommentAuthorifbm
    • CommentTimeApr 2nd 2008
     
    anti nowhere league-so what
    Fantan Mojah-jah time
    Lisa Minelli-mein herr
    Etta James-seven day fool

    Hmmm, think I'm getting old.
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      CommentAuthorselim
    • CommentTimeApr 2nd 2008
     
    @ fromemory
    Is this the red fg you speaking of? Then that's me.
    http://img383.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dscf4302zu7.jpg

    And why are most you messengers such miserable bastards? It's getting warmer, sun and more jobs.
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    it's got to be:

    Long train running - Doobie Brothers
    Roots Bloody Roots - Sepultura
    and I am well into 'I'm a man' by the Spencer Davis Group which is the song off the singing dog advert. Choon!
    (E -E7 (verse) G -F#-F-E (Chorus)) in case you were wondering.
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      CommentAuthorfromemory
    • CommentTimeApr 2nd 2008 edited
     
    @ Selim... yeah i think so... nodded to you on the cannon street---> southwark bridge hill thingy yesterday or the day before. Really like your photography. What setup you got. I'm running an EOS 350, thought about taking it out to an alleycat myself sometime, and maybe riding a few in the summer.

    If i was to listen to music while I was delivering it would have to be

    oxford street (from high holborn) - chemical brothers - star guitar
    wardour street - clash - london calling
    waterloo bridge - kinks - waterloo sunset
    gracechurch st - vitalic - la rock 01
    farringdon rd (from kings x) - nick drake - road
    regent street (going downhill) - smashing pumpkins - zero
    great titchfield st (on a nice day) - boards of canada - kid for today
    old street - trentemoller - always something better
    camden high st - jimi hendrix - all along the watchtower

    and if the mp3 player fucked up then i'd just have an old tape player with one song repeating over and over
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARj-sWYQs4Y&feature=related
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      CommentAuthorzero cc
    • CommentTimeApr 2nd 2008
     
    ok - back in the day - before classic fm started broadcasting, they had a test broadcast going which consisted of a loop of 'country sounds': just a mike in the middle of a field: bird song, dogs barking, wind drifting, that sort of thing. Loop went about a minute or more. I had a tiny little FM radio (ciggie lighter size) and headphones. Had it on all day long - didn't block out any traffic noise, and just pure chilled me out. I read somewhere recently that it might be available again. Find it.
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      CommentAuthorzero cc
    • CommentTimeApr 2nd 2008
     
    ..otherwise, if you're going to insist on music, then:
    Can
    The Velvets
    The Clash
    Zeppelin
    Deep Purple

    ..ok, so I'm old - but I'm right!
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    I cant listen to music and ride, have no idea how you could do this, need the ears, Doppler effect tells you where everything is around you.

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